The Osceola times., 1887-10-08
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.

/ A man giving his name as John Lewis,
! OF Yell County, was arrested in Little
{ Rock a few nights ago for being drunk on
/ the streets When taken to the cooler
| and searched, pistol and $3.50 was taken
/ from him. In the police court Judge
! Blanks fined him fifteen dollars. He went
| into the hall with an officer, unbuttoneA
his coat and vest and took a roll of money
from under his arm, paid his fine aud left
the court. When his honor learned OF the
fellows caper he remasked; Boys you
must make the prisoners hold up their
arms when you scarce them"
A few days since John Hardcastle, whs
had been living in Nixon township, Stone
County, started TO move to the Arkansas
Valley with his family to spend the cot-
ton picking season. While en- route some
person, unknown, hailed him from the
brush calling him a hog and thief. and
daring him TO come ont and settle the mat
ter. Hardeaste stopped his wagon, and,
gun in hand, started up hill in the direc-
tion OF the voice. About thirty feet from
the wagon he received a volley and fell
mortally wounded, the buckshot pene.
trating his body, limbs and head. Five
persons have been arrested for the crime,
and one of them has turned States evi.
dence.
IL hsb been so dry in Calhoun County
that saw-mills have been compelled to
shut down for lack of water.
The fish are still dying in the Arkansas
river. Fish that are now caught and
cooked spoil in few hours.
Farmers in Little River County have
some surplus live stock they wouldn't OBJ
iect TO selling at fair prices,
A wild panther was recently reported
roaming through the hills south of Pay
Village, in Cross County.
Cotton in Howard County is estimated
ut sixty per cent. Of full crop. Corn
will make more than the average yield.
The corn crop OF Ashley County is above
an average, but cotton has been materially
damaged by drought aud worms.
Jefferson County just now is paying out
weekly $4,000 for the single item of cot
ton-picking, done mainly by women and
children.
Assessment returns for Ashley County
| show gain OF S295, 800 over last years val
| uation--the largest gain for any one year
since the war.
Good timbered lands in Little River
! County, with soil as fertile as any in the
| State, can be bought from the Government
at SIPS an acre.
/ OF the sixty-six varieties of seeding ap.
! pies from Arkansas, exhibited before the
| Pomological Society in Boston recently,
| forty-six were from Benton County.
Cotton will average about seyenty-five
| per cent. Of full crop in Arkansas County.
| Farmers have been m aking the most of ths
fne weather, and picking has gone for
ward rapidly.
Probably the youngest bride In the State
| win be Miss Lulu Matthews, aged four
teen, of Center Point, license having been
granted, with consent of parents, for he,
| marriage to Isaac Runnels, aged twenty
Cotton on Red river and the prairies
near by is reported as good as any crop
| made for years. Judge Calvin McHenry
has 20 acres, which, he says, will give
! bale to the acre if pickers can be had to
| gather it.
A premium OF one new cook stove, q SET
| of plates, cups and saucers and five dollars
in gold is offered to any couple who will
| get married on the grounds at the IIar-
rison and North Arkansas fair. The couple
must be white, and give certificate that
they are respectable and present their
| marriage license.
| In Conway County the corn crop is ( od
| and the cotton acreage five or twenty per
cent. greater than last year. Drought
| and worms are respon sible for an esti
mated decrease of fifteen to twenty pei
cent in the cotton yield. Cotton is all
open, and could he picked in fortnight il
hands could be had.
The situation in Dallas County Is not SO
good as 1t might be, according TO a CORE.
spondent, who says: The cotton crop is
almost a failure. What promised about
the lst of July to be the largest yield ever
| known in the county, has been cut short
at least one.half by the drought, rust, lazi.
ness, etc. The corn crop turned out much
better than expected. All the thrifty
farmers have enough corn to last them
the year through, and many have some to
sell.
The Governor has ordered special elec.
tion to be held in Horrison township,
Union County, for Il justice Of the peace.
The eldest son Of j. X. Childres, OF Min
eIal Springs, aged thirteen years, fell
from tree few days ago. striking on
h;t head and dislocating his neck.
The Governor offers n reward Of 500 for
the arrest and delivery of Robert Richard
son to the sheriff of Prairie County. Rich
ardson Is the man who shos aud mortally
wounded Charley Cash at Deyall's Bluff
recently.
IL C. spiroy, u prominent merchant Of
Dexter, Mo-, while in attendance at Cir.
cult Court at Harrisburg, this State, n few
| days since, was arrested by Deputy
| United States Marshal II. n. Faulkenbur,
for burning the general store and hotel be-
longing to him (Spirey). and also the post.
office located at Weiner, Poinsett County.
one night in December last TO secure the
insurance, amounting to $500.
A man named Baugh, employed at tn,
steam gin Of Mr.. Montgomery, in Heaton
township, Arkansas County, met with a
horrible accident a few days ago. He and
Montgomery were raising the breast OF
the gin when il was in motion, and some.
how Baugh became entangled in the ma
chine, mashing his right leg so badly that
amputation was necessary. 1t is thought
he will die.
The charter Of the New American Free
men, Grand Lodge of Arkansas, has been
filed with the Secretary of State. The
| purposes and objects of the body cor
| porate are philanthropy aud charity. by
| providing for the sick and distressed OF
the order, aud to bury deceased members.
| Casscoe, Arkansas County, is the place Of
domicie Of the body corporate.
The cotton gins are kept busy.
A resolution was recently adopted by
| the board of directors of the Little Rock
Exposition providing for one or more
''School Days" free for all school chill.
| dren in the State. This is grand move
! in behalf of our educational interests, and
/ il ought To send tn Iittta Rock nj Ioa a.. A..